Read the full judgment text of CACC 353/2019 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 17 December 2021.
1. We agree with the judgment of McWalters JA but wish to add some comments of our own on the common law exception of recent complaint in sexual cases. This exception operates to allow evidence of a complaint made by a complainant in a sexual case as long as it was made “at the first opportunity after the offence which reasonably offers itself”. See R v Osborne [1] . As explained by McWalters JA, the evidence of recent complaint is permitted for the limited purpose of showing the consistency of
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